Uyuni (Zona Pucará)
| Uyuni | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 134 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3724 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1004-0500-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 27 ′ S , 66 ° 55 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Inquisivi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Colquiri |
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Uyuni ( also Zona Pucará ) is a town in the La Paz department in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Uyuni is the central place of the canton Uyuni in the municipality of Colquiri in the province of Inquisivi . The village is located at an altitude of 3724 m on the Río Taypuma, which flows downstream into the Río Leque .
geography
Uyuni lies between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the Uyuni region is 7 ° C (see Colquiri climate diagram), the average monthly values fluctuate only insignificantly between 3 ° C in June and July and 9 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is 500 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm in the dry season from May to August and 100 to 120 mm in January and February.
Transport network
Uyuni is located at a distance of 380 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the paved road Ruta 1 leads in a south-easterly direction 300 kilometers via Patacamaya and Sica Sica to Caracollo , and from there Ruta 4 to the east for another 30 kilometers to Lequepalca . Five kilometers behind Lequepalca branches at the mouth of the river Janho Kkota at Thola Pampa / Aranjuez a dirt road to the north and reaches over Ancocota past Caluyo after 29 kilometers Ancocalani . One kilometer east of Ancocalani, a country road branches off in a south-easterly direction, after another seven kilometers you do not follow the road further south, but turn in a north-easterly direction and after another twelve kilometers you reach Uyuni .
population
The town's population has decreased by around forty percent over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 238 | census |
| 2012 | 134 | census |
The population of the region is above all the indigenous people of the Aymara on, 82.9 percent of the inhabitants of the municipality colquiri speak Aymara .
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Relief map of the Oruro-Cochabamba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Relief map of the Independencia region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Municipio Colquiri - General Maps No. 21004
- Municipio Colquiri - detailed map and population data (PDF; 588 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )